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--Structural and Other-- Arterial Dissection Arteriovenous Malformation Epidural Hematoma Hydrocephalus, Benign External Hydrocephalus, Communicating Hydrocephalus, Noncommunicating Intraventricular Hemorrhage Periventricular Leukomalacia Porencephaly Subdural Hematoma Vein of Galen Aneurysm --Malformations and neurocutaneous disorders-- Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Band Heterotopia Chiari I Chiari II (Arnold Chiari) Chiari III Holoprosencephaly Hydranencephaly Linear Sebaceous Nervous Syndrome Lissencephaly Neurofibromatosis I Neurofibromatosis II Periventricular Heterotopia Polymicrogyria Schizencephaly Septo-Optic Dysplasia Sturge-Weber Syndrome Tuberous Sclerosis --Metabolic and degenerative disorders-- Adrenoleukodystophy, X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy, Neonatal Alpers Alexanders's Disease Alternating hemiplegia of childhood Ataxia Telangiectasia Canavan's Disease Friedreich's Ataxia Galactosemia Glutaric aciduria Hallervorden-Spatz Homocystinuria Hunter Huntington disease Hurler Isovaleric acidemia Krabbe disease Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Leigh Disease Lesch-Nyhan Maple Syrup Urine Disease Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase defect MELAS Menke's MERRF Metachromatic Leukodystrophy Methylmalonic acidemia Neimann-Pick Type C Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: early infantile Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: late infantile Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: juvenile Pelizaeus Merzbacher Phenylketonuria Propionic acidemia Reye's syndrome Sanfillipo Tay-Sachs Urea cycle defect Wilson's Zellweger's --Neuromuscular, anterior horn cell-- Becker muscular dystrophy Central core disease Congenital muscular dystrophy Congenital myasthenic syndrome Congenital myotonic dystrophy Dermatomyositis Duchenne muscular dystrophy Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis Hypokalemic periodic paralysis Infantile botulism Myasthenia gravis Myotonic dystrophy Myotubular (centronuclear) myopathy Nemaline rod myopathy Spinal mucular atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy I (Werdnig Hoffman) Spinal muscular atrophy II Transient neonatal myasthenia --Movement disorders-- Acute cerebellar ataxia Chronic motor tics Dopa-responsive dystonia Hyperekplexia Kernicterus Sydenham's chorea Tourette syndrome --Tumors-- Brainstem glioma Cerebellar astrocytoma Cerebral Glioma, High grade Cerebral Glioma, Low grade Choroid plexus papilloma Craniopharyngioma Ependymoma Medulloblastoma Optic nerve glioma Pinealoma Pituitary ademoma Primitive neuroectodermal tumor, cerebral --Sleep Disorders-- Benign neonatal sleep myoclonus Narcolepsy Night terrors --Cognitive and behavioral disorders-- Attention deficit disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Autismor pervasive developmental disorder Conversion disorder Dyslexia --Infections, inflammatory, and postinfectious-- Bacterial meningitis Cryptococcal meningitis Congenital syphilis Herpes simplex encephalitis HIV encephalopathy Lupus cerebritis Lyme disease Multiple sclerosis Optic neuritis PANDAS Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis Transverse myelitis Tuberculous meningitis --Chromosomal disorders and other syndromes-- Angelman syndrome Fragile X Klinefelter syndrome Prader Willi syndrome Rett syndrome Trisomy 13 Trisomy 18 Trisomy 21 Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (4p-) --Headaches and migraines-- Basilar migraine Benign paroxysmal vertigo Migraine with visual aura Migraine without aura Pseudotumor cerebri -- Seizures, epilepsies, and other paroxysmal events--" Absence epilepsy Benign familial neonatal seizures Benign Rolandic epilepsy (benign centrotemporal epilepsy of childhood) Complex febrile seizures Cyanotic breath-holding spells Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus Glucose transporter deficiency Infantile spasms Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy Landau-Kleffner syndrome Lennox-Gastaut syndrome Mesial temporal sclerosis Pallid breath-holding spells Partial seizures, Complex Partial seizures, Simple Partial seizures with secondary generalization Rasmussen's encephalitis Simple febrile seizures Status epilepticus

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